LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
Global law firm Freshfields has named Mark Sansom as its new global Client Partner, with Victoria Sigeti appointed as the firm’s new UK Managing Partner. Sansom will have responsibility for shaping and driving the firm’s global client strategy across practice groups and sectors. He will continue his client work in full alongside undertaking the new
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Quick question: “If a star rainmaker built ‘their’ office, do they get to secretly take it with them – or does the partnership own everything they touch?”
When the Australian Financial Review recently devoted a major feature to “the $36 million box of Hong Kong cupcakes”, it wasn’t really about baked goods – it was about how a high‑performing litigation boutique managed to blow itself up in plain sight.
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Article source: Smithen Family Law There is a quiet moment many women experience before separation becomes visible. You may still be making school lunches. Still attending family events. Still smiling through dinners. Still sleeping beside someone who does not yet know that, emotionally, you have already begun to leave. That private stage matters. Before you
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Article source: Nova Defenders Law Being charged with a violent crime in Virginia is a serious matter that can change the trajectory of a person’s life. While the terms are often used together as a single phrase, assault and battery are actually two distinct legal concepts under Virginia law. Understanding how the Commonwealth defines these
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New York closed out 2025 with the second-highest average dog bite claim cost in the country. Insurers paid out an average of $92,154 per claim across 1,308 New York incidents, putting the state behind only California in total payouts and well above the national average of $65,450, according to homeowners’ dog bite claim data compiled
Article source: Abaev Law Firm PLLC Strong evidence is the backbone of a personal injury claim. It helps prove negligence, establish the extent of harm caused, and determine the compensation a victim is entitled to. Without it, even valid cases can be dismissed or undervalued during settlement negotiations. Car accident claims in New York often
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1,374,720 Active Lawyers in 2026 – Salaries, Demographics, State Rankings & BigLaw Trends Sonia Hickey, LawFuel contributing editor Knowing how many lawyers are in the US tells you more than just a headcount. It shows where the legal job market is heating up, how the profession is shifting demographically, what new graduates can realistically expect
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A colossal US$4.6 billion (NZ$7.7 billion) class action against global wealth-tech behemoth FNZ has opened in the New Zealand High Court this week, immediately sparking a fierce jurisdictional skirmish over whether the legal battleground should be Wellington or London. Billed as one of the largest corporate class actions in Asia-Pacific history, the lawsuit has pitted
LOS ANGELES – California-based companies Perfectus Aluminum Inc., Perfectus Aluminum Acquisitions LLC and four affiliated warehousing companies have agreed to pay a total of $549.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly and improperly evading, or conspiring to evade, antidumping and countervailing duties owed to the United States on aluminum extrusions imported from
If you want to understand the constitutional worldview of New Zealand’s brand new Attorney-General, look no further than his Beehive office wall. Taking pride of place is a framed copy of Fitzgerald v Muldoon, the landmark 1976 ruling that removed all doubt about Parliament’s role as the country’s paramount law-making body. “The judgment’s laid out
